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How much torture did he order on the Swiss, I was not aware they were involved in anything?
Maybe he took a few bank accounts they didn't like to give up and now with the IRS busting people there hiding money, maybe they are just pissed.
Water boarding is actually done in training to some in the armed forces as training. It is tough to go through but and is no fun, but if that is torture that is the most humane I've ever heard of.
If we know a terrorist has information on where a nuke is about to blow up, I don't propose we give a manicure, I'd much sooner see nails pulled out for starters.
We are in different world now where you have beheading terrorist who are delusional and believe if they die in homicide bombings that they might finally get laid in the after life.
I don't think you can wait when people have information on major scales regarding attacks.
Plus there are not armies, these are independent terrorists.
These terrorist behead, skin alive, break bones, pull bones out through skin, bleed people. break joints, pluck out eye balls and so forth.
I think they deserve a full measure of wrath regarding getting information if we know they have it.
From what I remember reading, about three people got most of the water boarding.
Three people vs innocent dying in a terrorist attack, and all three are fine afterwards.
The US signed the 1949 Geneva Convention. Geneva is in Switzerland. Torture is a violation of the Convention. Violations of the Convention would adjudicated in Geneva, which I believe was earlier mentioned, to be in Switzerland.
Sorry. The Geneva conventions don't apply to enemy combatants.
Apparently, if you read the article, you's see the groups are two whacked out leftie groups from NY. Nothing will come of it. It certainly wasn't being pushed by the Swiss government.
Actually, Federal Assemblymember Dominique Baettig, Swiss People's Party (SVP), officially requested that the Swiss government issue an arrest order if Bush showed up.
Dubya getting the cold shoulder. I do confess to a bit of schadenfreude.
All it takes is for a jurisdiction with whom Switzerland has an extradition treaty to bring charges and demand extradition ..... just like they did when the US demanded extradition of Polanski. In execution of the warrant, the Swiss would arrest the suspect and hold them pending extradition procedures. The suspect might be released under house arrest but would not be allowed to leave the country.
Sorry. The Geneva conventions don't apply to enemy combatants.
Sorry. Like most misinformed right wingers, you think the Geneva Conventions are only for POWs and have no clue about the UN Convention on Torture. Sorry.
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Nothing will come of it. It certainly wasn't being pushed by the Swiss government.
